Post Office Mural Depicting 'Cruel' Native Americans Sparks Debate In N 4. It is certain that a great many were killed, some say at least a hundred. But subsequent scholarship, not least by the Queenslanders Raymond Evans and Robert rsted-Jensen, has rendered Reynolds figure conservative, perhaps by a multiple of three or four or, if deaths attributable to disease and deprivation are included, by many times more. Could more be said in Parliament help free Julian Assange? He also quotes a near-contemporary to the events, a stockman named Doug Moore, as saying: Waterloo Station was named on account of the battle with natives there years ago. I also, in researching the book, counted all of the Europeans who were killed. 'The massacre of Aboriginal people in a 'war of extermination' was widespread and relentless. This is a government, and by and large, a people, who deny facts, deny science, deny history. (modern), The Kalkadoon massacre memorial plaque at Kajabbi, Queensland, which has been pockmarked with bullet holes. Jarrakan Wyndham to the NT border and down towards Halls Creek [] history must be re-written to include the Indigenous massacres, oppression and deaths in custody which from 1788 till today, and no doubt well into the future, [], Your email address will not be published. The conclusion of the Forrest River Royal Commission was that twenty Aboriginals were killed and their bodies burnt in reprisal for the killing of pastoralist Frederick Hay, though one participant said hundreds were killed. Historical context [ edit] Massachusetts responded to the Siege of Pemaquid (1689) by sending out 600 men to the border region. I also ignore Australia Day. Location in Western Australia Coordinates: 17.261S 127.463E Bedford Downs, or Bedford Downs Station, is a pastoral lease that operates as a cattle station in Western Australia . Ambush of John Durack and Party by natives, 17/11/86 to 12/12/86', report 11 January 1887, Report from P.C. My friends photograph of the monument, featuring the face of a warrior, arrived at the tail end of a protracted period of outrage from politicians about the vandalism of public statues of colonial English fellows, James Cook and Lachlan Macquarie, who were both responsible for extreme violence against Australias Indigenes. The Australian Museum estimates that pre-European invasion in 1788, about 750,000 Indigenous people (representing some 700 language groups) inhabited the continent that would become Australia. 1830 Fremantle Punishment Raid The first official 'punishment raid' on Aboriginal people in Western Australia, led by Captain Irwin took place in May 1830. Actually the article should have included the Appin Massacre of 14 Aboriginals on 17 April 1816 "as a result of the orders issued by Governor Macquarie in 1816." Aerial view of the Diamantina River, Queensland. The judge in the Supreme Court made a damning summation for over an hour, but it took the jury just 15 minutes to return not guilty. Several young women were raped on the beach, then held prisoner in McKenzie's hut for three days before being released. Or a justice system run by and for the colonisers, as it continues to be. Its a figure Ive referenced numerous times since about 2010 when writing about frontier history, and one that was for decades roundly but unfairly condemned by some reactionaries and historians of the right as a gross inflation.